Sleepover at Grandma and Grandad's

Sophia survived two nights being left to stay with us. We had a great time and I think she enjoyed the novelty of different surroundings. We had a walk by the river in Totnes but our plans to swim in the outdoor pool were scuppered by the weather.

Visiting Exmouth

I spent Saturday travelling to Exmouth to rendezvous with Hannah and Dan so we could  look at this!

 With the news that another baby Durdin is due to make an appearance next year they are looking for something a bit bigger to live on, and this is a contender!
All very exciting and I had a lovely day out- every one else was busy! Phil working, Lydia in Bristol, Julia at Hurdlestone.

Buying and wearing clothes

I have been reading this blog for a while now:
http://www.makingthishome.com/2011/06/13/is-the-no-new-clothes-challenge-worth-it/comment-page-1/#comment-13596
and it is always very interesting on lots of levels. After her comments about the lady who wore the same dress for a year I googled and found her.

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Enjoy! She also has a webpage http://www.littlebrowndress.com/brown%20dress%20archive%20home.htm

Half Term

We have had a lovely relaxing week.
Julia has been out and about with friends in between  work, sea cadets and having Esme to stay.
Lydia has been revising, buying a new laptop and lying in the garden!
Phil and I went for a sail on tuesday in Lucy Morales,saw Pirates of the Caribbean 4 on wednesday, had our christmas present meal on the Res Nova on thursday, slept the night on board Lucy M, motored up to Dittisham for on board coffee, and had a beach BBQ with the girls at the Strete Gate end of Slapton. Lovely times.
Apart from a bit of river work Phil has had no band or teaching so it has been a nice rest for us all.

Res Nova

Ten Tors

Julia spent this last weekend tramping 35 miles across Dartmoor visiting Ten Tors and camping the night on the moor. She was part of a team representing TS Dartmouth and the sea cadets(hence the naval caps!), there were two other teams from  Dartmouth Youth Service, one 35 and one 45. They all did really well and thoroughly enjoyed the experience! The only sad part was that team manager Chris Long and his family fly out to New Zealand on tuesday. Chris worked so hard training the kids and he will be sorely missed. 

Bye bye to the Longs, have a great time in New Zealand!               

Approaching the finish line!

TEN TORS SUCKS!!!!

After the medal presentation, a pasty awaits!!

Bugari

Last month we bid a fond farewell to 'Jireh', she has only gone to Brixham, so I'm sure we will see her on the river at sometime.
What has that got to do with the title of my post you may ask?and what is Bugari?
Bugari is the maker of Phil's new piano accordion, partly purchased with the proceeds of Jireh's sale.
Anyone who knows Phil could be forgiven for thinking that he already has plenty of piano accordions! But the number had decreased to 1 (well 2 if you count the 12 bass model which the girls asked him to keep in case they wanted to learn!?@?), anyway the new accordion arrived, had its first professional outing at the Dart Music festival and is giving Phil lots of pleasure!

Concentration is essential when trying a new instrument!

Knitting

Despite the warm weather( a beautiful sunny Easter!) I am still knitting away. I have three things on the needles at the moment!
This one (don't know why Blogger turned it round!!?) for Phil, which would have been finished for his birthday if I hadn't had to unravel it completely because it was too small!! The great thing about it is that it has no sleeves!! So should be finished soon.

The next thing is my cardigan, the wool was bought with my Christmas money from MIL, this is even more nearly finished but I had to lay it aside for Phil's birthday sweater!!

And finally- a little something for Sophia but not in a baby size, 2-3 actually!

There, that is just some of what is keeping me busy! I will post about my sewing projects when I have taken some more photos.
Back to the needles!!